Fountainhead
AUGUST 26, 2012
'skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Sunday, August 26, 2012. The Rise of the Cloud Service Bus. In my recent GigaOm guest blog , I posited that the advent of hosted cloud services (particularly PaaS and SaaS) will slowly morph the role of the CIO into that of an IT Supply Chain Manager.
Cloud Musings
AUGUST 12, 2012
'Cloud Musings by Kevin L. Jackson. Personal comments and insight on cloud computing related technologies and their use in the public sector to support net-centric operations. Pages. Home. Cloud Musings on Forbes. NJVC Cloud Computing. GovCloud Daily. GovCloud Presentations. GovCloud on Facebook. Get "Cloud Musings" by RSS. Posts. Atom. Posts. Comments.
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Trends in the Living Networks
AUGUST 29, 2012
I first came across the law of requisite variety almost 20 years ago. Ross Ashby proposed the idea in his 1956 book An Introduction to Cybernetics (see p.202-218), and expanded on it in his paper Requisite variety and its implications for the control of. complex systems. The idea became one of the foundational concepts of the field of Cybernetics. The law is developed mathematically, using essentially what we would now consider game theory.
SPF13
AUGUST 12, 2012
'by Steve Francia. blog. code. talks. me. share. Twitter. Facebook. Google+. LinkedIn. Delicious. Reddit. StumbleUpon. sharing is caring. follow. RSS. Twitter. Facebook. LinkedIn. GitHub. Google+. SlideShare. join 10k+ subscribers & followers. Add PhotoshopCS5 support to Picasa. If you are like me you use Picasa to manage your photos, but recognize that the editing options are very limited.
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CIO Musings
AUGUST 5, 2012
'CIO Musings - Life as a Public Sector CIO. A blog about things that interest me as a Chief Information Officer (CIO) working for a local government. Primarily focused on technology, leadership and some of my recreational pursuits. Follow me on twitter at @BarryCondrey Enjoy! Sunday, August 5, 2012. Public CIO as Social Media Practitioner. I was interviewed recently by Public CIO magazine for an article on the use of social media by public-sector CIOs.
All Things Distributed
AUGUST 20, 2012
'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud â?? Managing Cold Storage with Amazon Glacier. By Werner Vogels on 21 August 2012 12:01 AM. | Permalink. | Comments (). Managing long-term digital archiving is a challenge for almost every company. With the introduction of Amazon Glacier , IT organizations now have a solution that removes the headaches of digital archiving and provides extremely low cost storage.
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Social, Agile and Transformation
AUGUST 21, 2012
I love this post, Why Estimate? It's a topic I've confronted at organizations adopting agile and I hear all the barriers, "it's not accurate", "don't hold me accountable to it", "isn't estimating a waterfall process?". Mike's points are dead on. You estimated to help make decisions on what NOT to do. If a feature is broken down to12 stories estimated at 150 points and the team's velocity is.
Trends in the Living Networks
AUGUST 8, 2012
Two years ago I wrote a post Will there be capital markets for equity in people? That appears to be coming true with the launch of Upstart , a startup from a group of ex-Google employees. Venture Beat writes : Would you fork over a small portion of your income for the next decade in exchange for funding? The team behind Upstart, (pictured, above) a new crowdfunding platform, is willing to bet that this will be a viable option for scores of recent grads and budding entrepreneurs.
Cloud Musings
AUGUST 8, 2012
'Cloud Musings by Kevin L. Jackson. Personal comments and insight on cloud computing related technologies and their use in the public sector to support net-centric operations. Pages. Home. Cloud Musings on Forbes. NJVC Cloud Computing. GovCloud Daily. GovCloud Presentations. GovCloud on Facebook. Get "Cloud Musings" by RSS. Posts. Atom. Posts. Comments.
The Accidental Successful CIO
AUGUST 29, 2012
'Image Credit Lots of numbers, but where are the answers? If there is one word in the IT Sector that is hot, hot, hot these days it’s analytics. It seems as though it has almost become a part of the definition of information technology. Everyone and their mother’s uncle seems to be saying that analytics is the next great thing that is going to transform the company.
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SPF13
AUGUST 12, 2012
If you are like me you use Picasa to manage your photos, but recognize that the editing options are very limited. You can easily add a button in Picasa that will allow you to edit the current picture in photoshop. I took an existing button built for PhotoshopCS3 and updated it to work with this more contemporary version. It’s limited to working only on Windows.
Fountainhead
AUGUST 27, 2012
'skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Monday, August 27, 2012. The CIO as The (IT) Supply Chain Manager. Guest blog on GigaOm. Posted by. Ken Oestreich. at. 2:23 PM. Labels: CIO conversations , Cloud Computing , IT Transformation. No comments: Post a Comment. Newer Post.
All Things Distributed
AUGUST 16, 2012
'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Total Cost of Ownership and the Return on Agility. By Werner Vogels on 16 August 2012 10:00 AM. | Permalink. | Comments (). In the many meetings with customers in which I have done a deep dive on their architecture and applications to help them create an accurate cost picture, I have observed two common patterns: 1) It is hard for customers to come to an accurate Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) calcu
Trends in the Living Networks
AUGUST 15, 2012
A recent study from Burson-Marsteller looks in depth at what the Fortune Global 100 are currently doing on social media. Burson-Marsteller Global Social Media Check-Up 2012 from Burson-Marsteller. Some of the interesting insights from the study include: * There is a massive amount of communication about major companies, with each company mentioned in an average of over 55,000 tweets and 19,000 blog posts each month. * Corporate participation in social media is high though not yet pervasive, with
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Mick's IT Blog
AUGUST 20, 2012
'Micks IT Blogs. My blog is here to help solve issues I have encountered and solved, publish scripts I have written, and educate others in understanding areas that are not well covered. -->. Micks IT Blogs. My blog is here to help solve issues I have encountered and solved, publish scripts I have written, and educate others in understanding areas that are not well covered.
The Accidental Successful CIO
AUGUST 22, 2012
'Image Credit. CIOs Need To Find Ways To Get Every Penny Possible. It can be quite expensive for a CIO to run an IT department. There are a lot of different costs that all seem to contribute to the definition of information technology: server, networks, applications, developers, system administrators, etc. These costs don’t seem to be deceasing and in fact, only seem to be going up.
The Investing Edge
AUGUST 24, 2012
'I’ve seen the venture capital due diligence process from both sides of the table and I know how comprehensive and exhaustive it can be (sometimes to the chagrin of the entrepreneur). But it’s a critical part of the process, ensuring that the venture investor is fully bought into the team, product, market, etc. A typical venture capitalist makes only a couple new investments per year, so a mistake is very costly.
Sean Daniel
AUGUST 8, 2012
'SeanDaniel.com [tech]. Technology Tips, Tricks & News Home | Technical Blog |. Photo Blog | E-Mail Me. Wednesday, August 08, 2012. SBS is a Community, Stick together! Well, I’ve seen a lot of unhappy faces (umm, emoticons?) about a name change from Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials to Windows Essential Server 2012. People don’t like the removal of the “SBS” part, and there is a revolt.
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All Things Distributed
AUGUST 24, 2012
'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - The 5 Minute Rule. By Werner Vogels on 24 August 2012 04:00 PM. | Permalink. | Comments (). I am in the midst of my South America tour in the beautiful but very cold Santiago, Chile. The AWS team launched this week Amazon Glacier , a cold storage archive service at the very low price point of $0.01 per GB/month.
Trends in the Living Networks
AUGUST 21, 2012
Power Retail magazine has just published a very nice piece on 3D Printing: The Next Retail Revolution , drawn primarily from an interview with me. It is worth reading the entire article, but I have below excerpted some of the quotes from me with some additional commentary. The piece begins by discussing the news that a company is developing technology for the 3D printing of meat.
Mick's IT Blog
AUGUST 20, 2012
'Micks IT Blogs. My blog is here to help solve issues I have encountered and solved, publish scripts I have written, and educate others in understanding areas that are not well covered. -->. Micks IT Blogs. My blog is here to help solve issues I have encountered and solved, publish scripts I have written, and educate others in understanding areas that are not well covered.
The Accidental Successful CIO
AUGUST 15, 2012
'Image Credit Innovation is where you find it…. “Be more innovative” – how many times has your CEO told you that? Although being innovative isn’t really part of the definition of information technology, CIOs still want their IT department to always be ahead of what their internal customers want. We’d like to be able to have our IT staff be solving problems that our customers might not even know that they have.
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The Investing Edge
AUGUST 27, 2012
'On behalf of Ascent Venture Partners , I’d like to congratulate Partner Matt Fates and VP of Finance Tom Scanlon for what I consider to be a pretty amazing accomplishment – completing an Ironman Triathlon. Cheered on by friends, family and thousands of supportive spectators at Mont-Tremblant in Quebec on August 19 th , Matt and Tom completed a 2.4-mile swim in Tremblant Lake , a 112-mile bike trek through Mont-Tremblant’s forests and mountains, and finished with a marathon that stretched
A Screw's Loose
AUGUST 28, 2012
'Home. About. Standard Disclaimer. A Screw's Loose. Identify yourself for MIM. by Brian Katz on August 28, 2012 · 0 comments. I had a great conversation on twitter today with Gunnar Peterson and Paul Madsen. It started from Gunnar’s great post (read it now) and the Venn Diagram that he created. Gunnar has hit the nail on the head in reference to stuff I have been talking about for a long time on this blog and in person.
All Things Distributed
AUGUST 31, 2012
'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Granularity of locks. By Werner Vogels on 31 August 2012 06:00 PM. | Permalink. | Comments (). I am at funconf in Ireland. After a ride in a Delorean , a private train ride to Galway and a helicopter flight I am sitting outside a cottage on the island of Inishmore.
Trends in the Living Networks
AUGUST 7, 2012
Last week I ran a workshop for the global leadership of the growth companies division of a major professional services firm. The Economist had just run a leader on Europe’s chronic failure to encourage ambitious entrepreneurs , including some interesting data comparing the age of leading European and American companies. I dug into the original data from think-tank Bruegel in their excellent report The Demographics of Global Corporate Champions to create the following chart.
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Future of CIO
AUGUST 5, 2012
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The Accidental Successful CIO
AUGUST 8, 2012
'Image Credit. Making innovation happen is the hard part…. “Be more innovative” – how many times has your CEO told you that? Although being innovative isn’t really part of the definition of information technology, CIOs still want their IT department to always be ahead of what their internal customers want. We’d like to be able to have our IT staff be solving problems that our customers might not even know that they have.
Chief Seattle Greek Blog
AUGUST 1, 2012
'(This post originally published July 8, 2012). Do City, County and State government CIOs have a responsibility to be “cheerleaders” for their jurisdictions for economic development of the community? I think so. We CIOs have talked about “aligning information technology with the business” of government and “customer service” to other departments.
A Screw's Loose
AUGUST 24, 2012
'Home. About. Standard Disclaimer. A Screw's Loose. Productivity is in the eye of the FUDholder. by Brian Katz on August 24, 2012 · 2 comments. One of the comments that surprised me on twitter Tuesday was about bring your own device (BYOD) and the fact that it is an anathema to productivity. It was specifically pointed out that unmanaged BYOD is a productivity black hole.
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